TY - JOUR
T1 - Transesophageal Bronchoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration for Metastatic Vertebral Body Lesion
AU - Oki, Masahide
AU - Saka, Hideo
AU - Ichihara, Shu
AU - Moritani, Suzuko
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Malignant neoplasms frequently cause vertebral metastases. Traditionally, either image-guided percutaneous biopsy or open biopsy has been performed for sampling specimens for the definitive diagnosis. We herein report a case with suspected multiple metastases but unknown primary, who underwent endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration for mediastinal lymph nodes with negative results by rapid onsite cytologic evaluation, followed by the transesophageal approach with the ultrasound bronchoscope for the vertebral body lesion at the same setting that provided a definitive diagnosis of metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma.
AB - Malignant neoplasms frequently cause vertebral metastases. Traditionally, either image-guided percutaneous biopsy or open biopsy has been performed for sampling specimens for the definitive diagnosis. We herein report a case with suspected multiple metastases but unknown primary, who underwent endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration for mediastinal lymph nodes with negative results by rapid onsite cytologic evaluation, followed by the transesophageal approach with the ultrasound bronchoscope for the vertebral body lesion at the same setting that provided a definitive diagnosis of metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma.
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U2 - 10.1097/LBR.0000000000000235
DO - 10.1097/LBR.0000000000000235
M3 - Article
C2 - 28323730
AN - SCOPUS:85016125465
SN - 1944-6586
VL - 24
SP - 156
EP - 158
JO - Journal of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology
JF - Journal of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology
IS - 2
ER -